Posts About "Gustav Forsling"

June 24th, 2019
The Chicago Blackhawks have traded defender Gustav Forsling and goaltender Anton Forsberg in exchange for veteran defender Calvin de Haan and forward Aleksi Saarela. This trade comes just a few days after the 2019 NHL Entry Draft and one week from the start of free...

October 31st, 2018Last season, it came down to the final weekend of play to decide who in the AHL Central Division would go on to the Calder Cup playoffs. Based on the first month of the 2018-19 season, this year should not be any different. The Central is stacked with competitive teams and there will be a couple of very talented squads who will be...

January 2nd, 2018There’s no way to sugarcoat it. As we embark upon a new year, the Chicago Blackhawks are struggling. They headed into the Christmas break in a rut and have now come out of the break much the same. The Hawks are in the midst of a six-game road trip, and it hasn’t been pretty. They fell 5-2 to the lowly Vancouver Canucks last Thursday...

December 5th, 2017Five hockey games in seven days is a brutal stretch, but that’s exactly what the NHL schedule handed the Chicago Blackhawks this past week. Besides a 7-3 victory over the depleted Anaheim Ducks, the Hawks came up short in the next four games. The irony is that three of those games were only lost by one goal.
The final contest...

September 26th, 2017Prior to the start of the 2017-18 regular season, there are many inquiries regarding the Chicago Blackhawks—a roster and organization that has been absolutely engulfed in salary-cap struggles over recent years.
And to make matters worse, they have an embarrassing, ignominious playoff defeat lingering over their organization—a...

November 7th, 2016Following the instant success of players like Connor McDavid, Auston Matthews and Patrik Laine in their respective rookie year, our patience with NHL newcomers seems to have gotten shorter. We expect quick results, but that's obviously too much to ask for in most cases. As for in the case of Chicago Blackhawks rookie Gustav...

May 11th, 2016The Chicago Blackhawks have signed defenseman Gustav Forsling to a three-year, entry-level contract. Forsling, 19, was acquired by Chicago in Jan. 2015 in a trade that sent Adam Clendening to the Vancouver Canucks.
He was originally drafted in the fifth round (126 overall) in 2014 by the...

January 30th, 2015The Vancouver Canucks traded flavour of the World Juniors in Gustav Forsling to the Chicago Blackhawks for defenseman Adam Clendening and the immediate reaction was sort of split. I see merits in both sides of the aisle: Clendening is a young, offensively gifted defenseman who's ready for a shot in the NHL, and the Canucks have a need in...

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